Information delivering apparatus and information delivering method

• US 20060058046A1
• Filed: 12/26/2003
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kudo, Takahiro, Naito, Eiichi, Ozawa, Jun, Matsuura, Satoshi, Yoshida, Hideyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/523,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20060058046A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/457
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A movement history of the user is transmitted from each of a plurality of terminals (11) owned by the user to a movement history management server (13). The server (13) filters display-conditioned information received from an information provider terminal (14) by referring to the display conditions of the information and the stored user'"'"'s movement histories, to specify display-conditioned information to be transmitted, and transmits the specified information to the user.

Claims

1. An information distribution device comprising:

a history managing section for receiving from a plurality of terminals owned by a user movement histories of the user and use histories of the terminals and storing the received histories in a movement history database;

an information receiving section for receiving display-conditioned information provided with display conditions including an area condition and a timing condition from an information provider and storing the received information in an information storing section;

an information filtering section for filtering the display-conditioned information stored in the information storing section by comparing an action area of the user obtained from the movement histories stored in the movement history database with the area condition, to specify display-conditioned information to be transmitted to the user; and

an information transmitting section for determining a terminal among the plurality of terminals that satisfies the timing condition of the display-conditioned information specified by the information filtering section, by referring to the use histories stored in the movement history database, and transmitting the display-conditioned information to the terminal.

2. An information distribution method comprising the steps of:

receiving from a plurality of terminals owned by a user movement histories of the user and use histories of the terminals and storing the received histories in a movement history database;

receiving display-conditioned information provided with display conditions including an area condition and a timing condition from an information provider and storing the received information in an information storing section;

filtering the display-conditioned information stored in the information storing section by comparing an action area of the user obtained from the movement histories stored in the movement history database with the area condition, to specify display-conditioned information to be transmitted to the user; and

determining a terminal among the plurality of terminals that satisfies the timing condition of the specified display-conditioned information, by referring to the use histories stored in the movement history database, and transmitting the display-conditioned information to the terminal.